Gabriel Drummond-Cole (Mathematics) has successfully defended his dissertation this spring under John Terilla (Asst. Prof., Queens, Mathematics). His dissertation is entitled “Homotopy Batalin Vilkovisky Algebras, Trivializing Circle Actions, and Moduli Space.” Drummond-Cole has received a Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship for a position at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, to begin this fall. (posted 7-2010)